LIBERTAS

Intro Podcast

* Introductory remarks from Laurent Salomé, Director of the Palace of Versailles and Angela Aggeler, Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, US Embassy in France 

* "The American Founding in Paris" by Francois-Henri Briard, Supreme Court Attorney (France), President of the Vergennes Society

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Panel 1 Podcast

Panel - 18th Century American and French Constitutions: Influence,  Similarity, and Divergence

* Laurent Zecchini, former Le Monde correspondent

* Lorianne Updike Toler, Libertas Constitutional Consulting

* Phillipe Raynaud, Professor of Political Science, Paris-4 University (Assas)

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Lunch Podcast

* "Recreating the first American and French Constitutional 'Conventions'" by Nicholas Cole, Senior Fellow and Director, The Quill Project, Pembroke College, The University of Oxford

* "The Importance of a French Quill" by William Ewald, University of Pennsylvania Law School (for his powerpoint, click here)

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Panel 2 Podcast

Panel - "Montesquieu, the French Enlightenment, and American Constitutional Thought" (Sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University)

* Andrew Bibby, Assistant Professor, Utah Valley University (for his powerpoint, click here)

* Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage, Hillsdale College

* Celine Spector, professor of political philosophy, University of Paris-Sorbonne

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Panel 3 Podcast

Panel - Divergent Histories: Religious Freedom in France and America and its Relevance for Comparative Constitutional Law (Sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religious Studies)

* Brett Scharffs, R. Kirkham Professor of Law, Associate Dean of J. Reuben Clark Law School, and Director of the International Center for Law and Religious Studies

* Jeremy Gunn, professor of law and political science, l'Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco, and Senior Fellow for Religion and Human Rights, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

* Blandine Chelini-Pont, professor in history, law and religions, Aix-Marseille University

* Amal Idrissi, professor of law, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco

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